Read time: 4 mins By Isabella Kaminski • Wednesday, February 3, 2021 - 16:38
The French state has been found guilty of climate inaction in what campaigners have dubbed “the case of the century”.
Today the Paris administrative court concluded France has failed to do enough to meet its own commitments on the climate crisis and is legally responsible for the ensuing ecological damage.
France is the third European country where legal action by campaigners has highlighted significant failings in state action on climate change and forced politicians to act, after the landmark Urgenda case in the Netherlands in 2019 and the Irish Supreme Court’s decision in the national Climate Case last year.